King is smaller that some of the cubs. Some cubs are roughly the size of peanut, some are a little smaller and King is around the size of the smallest cub. Lucretia should look bigger, particuliary in the first panels.

Wonder if Rick is a fan of old George Carlin. He had a segment in one of his early albums (I forget which, off the top of my head) talking about daytime TV of the 70s (when the concert was performed), and how women called soap operas “my story”. I think it was mentioned in his routine on the seven words you can never use on television (nor in the comments for the comic, so I won’t link it, but search Youtube for “carlin seven words”), but I’m not sure.

Actually, that was Tad Stones, discussing one of the principles of the Aladdin TV show: “When in doubt, hurt the bird”. People loved seeing Iago get smushed. There’s usually a character like that (Iago in Aladdin, Batty Koda in Ferngully). Sometimes it’s even the lead (Darkwing Duck, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, wait a second… there’s a trend here…).

I wouldn’t mind. There’s an old legend in Rome about their founders being raised by a she wolf. This could be a sign that king will do great things. Then again, Ceaser was famous for being stabbed in the back.

also, as OotS suggests. up until you die you’ll live a good life (duh), so why bother? If you’re an evil overlord, you’ll become stuff of legends, if you were a good ruler, you’ll become still stuff of legends, so it’s a win-win situation.

It’s not a contradiction to being king. Just a mild unpleasantly of who King could become.

Kind of like, it’s good to be king, until they bring out the torches and pitchforks. For Ceaser it was a knife (despite he was a great leader), for the founders of Rome it was their brother’s hand, and for King it very well may be Lucreta’s love of soap.

Reminds me of my mum, hahahahahahaha!
Good times… well, kinda. Thanks to that I used to miss House M.D. X’( I missed many, many, many episodes…
What’s a Soap Opera? All I can imagine is a bar of soap in a huge opera stage singing “Figaro” or something.

Yep, definitely everything makes sense and reminds me even more of those days without House M.D, that doc is AWESOME!
And thanks for telling me, DaLoneWolf25.
Hehehehehe, soap quartet in “Dirty Situation”. I still can’t stop thinking of cleaning materials singing all kinds of stuff.

Soap Opera is a low budget TV series. The name came about because the first soap operas were created in the era when a TV show usually had a single primary commercial sponsor, and these kinds of TV shows tended to be sponsored by companies selling household products.

@netherwolf: We all have our great moments in commenting so almost everyone gets his(her) turn, so it’s no surprise… plus mentioning King and Sasha in the same comment is bound to have a torrent of comments anyhow. XD

Oh, I used to comment A LOT, along with a few others. It’s one of the reasons there are comics with 900 comments on them: Me, Hypergenesis, and some others. Mostly I remember the Squidfletcher Incident– the moral of which is to not go too far off topic.

Anyway, school happened. Running Start Student here, and for Fall Quarter I took German and Peer Mentoring (tutoring someone, basically) at my high school and Precalculus AND English 101 at the college. What with bussing, homework, and exhaustion, I didn’t have time to get on here much.

Indeed! But King was able to pull through the hardest, most weirdest moments over the last two years since his transformation caused by Pete and he’s handling it pretty well. A normal person would go crazy.

King We still love ya don’t ever change back to a human your awesome as a Corgi!

He may get the comments, but he never gets the girl. I mean, he tries, and then the girl just brushes him off! “I don’t date humans, that would be weird.” Well you know what I say to that? I say wh–*BUG-EYES*

Heh it’s so nice reading the comments and seeing how we all love Lucretia, kinda shows how similar we are no matter where we live right? :3
BTW at first I thought she was one of the cubs who got older or somethin, cuz…. well just look at her! Personally I can’t compare her to her old self aaand to tell the truth that’s not a prob she looks perfect, much more feminine.
BTW yeah poor King is gettin the “Hug of missed soapoperas”, that’s no easy thing to endure as you can see. XD

The lower part of his mouth is out of (in a movie term) the shot . And I don’t see any possible interference to King’s lower part of the mouth because of Lucretia’s arm. Her arm is the closest to him on his left cheek.
Even if his lower mouth is not seen properly, because of her arm, I don’t see the reason why that part of the body would be out of the panel in the first place. It’s a head. It’s not always nice to look at an image where one part of a man’s (in this case, of an animal) head is chopped of.

If today’s comic was drawn completely by ignoring the basics of planning and positioning a character(s) in a room for a shot, for a good noticeable reason, then I wouldn’t take notice. The reason why I’m mentioning this, is because the other three panels were so nicely done, and looking at the third panel made me think that it was out of place in today’s comic.
I don’t have a problem with the idea behind the third panel, it’s excellent. A little bit more down would be excellent, so that it can match the other panels.
I hope Rick that you don’t take this personal, this criticism is completely well intended. An artist to an artist.

Very nice, but I’m surprised nobody else has commented on Lucretia’s new, ’shapely’ figure. If we compare it to her appearance in “The Visitor” arc, it’s less boxy now and more curvy. It’s an intriguing change, since it anthropomorphicizes her even more in contrast to Miles and Daryl. And if I recall correctly, she was the one who emphasized that their life sucked as ferals.

Basically this is an English Major’s observation to the work of another English Major. It’s a well-done strip, and has plenty of new connotations behind it to keep it interesting.

She raises an interesting issue what with the power outage and everything. Talk about a generational gap. I can imagine the pack being told about this tradition of going camping in the summer, and the adults feeling the same way.

I laughed at the comment about her missing her stories. If you think wild animals becoming dependent on human food was bad, just wait – now they’re becoming dependent on our soap operas as well!

Awesome shading. And it’s nice to see King and one of the wolves again. I love how you gave her some muscle in the last panel to emphasize things, too. X3 And please tell me I’m not the only one who finds panels 1 and 3 adorable (1 because of Lucretia’s expression).

Could be. There were four strips with Grape and Peanut in this arc, there might be more strips with King. But I suspect not, this strip has a feeling of completion. I’m anticipating another arc of one-offs.